I am just beginning to understand how a website really works, and how to host one without using a provider like Squarespace, Wix, Framer, etc.
I was baking all of my files in to my static site, and pushing it to Github, which was creating very large uploads, even with just a few full resolution photos. I don’t want to compress these photos, so I looked into a better way.
I learned that I could host another site that actually pushes the photos I want to reference to the web, then on this website I can just reference those URLs to display photos.
Sure, if my server crashes, the photos will be unavailable, but I think I can stay on top of that, and resolve issues quickly. This should keep things running lean and fast on this blog site.
I re-linked the existing photos on my posts, exported my static site, and it was 90% smaller, with full quality photos- and they show up exactly how they did before! I’m enjoying learning how to implement this sort of thing.
I am intentionally not adding a photo to this post.